A remake of the cult classic ‘Lollipop Chainsaw’has been announced by Dragami games.

Publisher Dragami games has announced that it is developing a remake of the cult-classic action game Lollipop Chainsaw.

The remake is slated for a 2023 release however no consoles have been announced for the game to be released on so far.

Yoshimi Yasuda was previously the CEO of the company Kadokawa Games, which published Lollipop Chainsaw. He was also the executive producer on the game.

Yasuda left Kadokawa Games recently, and established a new company ‘Dragami Games’ , and now he has confirmed that remaking Lollipop Chainsaw is one of the company’s first projects.

In a tweet posted online , Yasuda said: “Unfortunately, various factors resulted in things making it so that fans can no longer easily play Lollipop Chainsaw, and it has been some time since players have not been able to access the game on current consoles.”

He also goes on to say:

We, the original development staff on Lollipop Chainsaw, think of the game as very precious to us, and did not want to leave it in limbo, where players who want to play it cannot.

Yasuda purchased the intellectual property rights from Kadokawa games, so they could remake the game. He also contacted  Warner Bros [who were the game publishers outside of Asia] about development, and are being supported by them to remake the game.

Yasuda said that while most of the original staff are working on the remake, some parts of the game will be different from the original ,released just over 10 years ago.

For example, many of the licensed tracks from the original soundtrack will have to be substituted with new original music.

He then talks more about the remake:

“Additionally, since we have access to consoles with higher specifications, we will be taking a more realistic approach to the graphics this time.” This could make the game seem very different, as the originals wacky charm was only exemplified by the arcade look and feel.

“In any case, our goal is to make it easier for gamers who want to play Lollipop Chainsaw to do so. Please look forward to the game’s 2023 release.”

The game was originally released in 2012 for ps3 and Xbox 360, and never saw a re-release or a PC release.

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“It’s about finding the right team and the right opportunity”…

Killer Instinct is a series of fighting video games originally created by Rare and published by Midway, Nintendo, and Microsoft Studios. The original Killer Instinct was released for arcades in 1994; the game was then released for the Super NES and Game Boy in 1995. Its popularity led to a sequel, Killer Instinct 2, released for arcades in 1996; the game was then released as Killer Instinct Gold for the Nintendo 64.

The most recent instalment was the series reboot Killer Instinct (2013) for the Xbox One.

Microsoft head of gaming Phil Spencer has now discussed the possibility of a return for the Killer Instinct series.

During the latest Dropped Frames podcast on Wednesday, he stated, “there are so many good games in our catalogue that we’d love to visit…the response when we redid KI at the launch of Xbox One was fantastic.”

“I will just say, [Xbox Game Studios head] Matt [Booty] and I have discussed many times KI and where we would like to go with it, and it’s not out of our minds that—it might be out of our minds—but it’s in our hearts and in our minds that we want to continue to do something with KI.

“It’s about finding the right team and the right opportunity,” Spencer added, “but it is not due to any kind of lack of desire on our part that we’re not doing more with KI because we love the franchise and the community response.”

In a 2019 Game Informer interview, Booty noted, “It’s been a few years now, but I was fortunate enough to work with the team who rebooted Killer Instinct,” he said. “That really came about because there was an energy and a passion for it.

“Those are the scenarios that I love, and I think that those tend to work out a little better than trawling through a spreadsheet going, ‘ah, nobody’s done this in a while, maybe we could reboot that one’.

“I think when somebody has a personal passion for it, it can really work out.”

This comes as great news for any fans of the KI series; a next-gen instalment could be on the cards.

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Get ready to jam…

With the sequel to the original 1996 Space Jam a few weeks away, we have been informed that the long-awaited sequel is also getting a tie-in video game.

‘Space Jam: A New Legacy – The Game’ will debut on Xbox Game Pass Ultimate on July 1. According to the trailer, it will also be free-to-play on the Microsoft Store on July 15th.

One would think that due to the film revolving around basketball that the game would take a similar approach. Instead, the game pays homage to the franchise’s retro roots, taking an arcade beat ’em up style approach. You take on the Goon squad, playing as Lebron James (the star of the next movie), fighting alongside Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny. You have a mix of original moves at your disposal, some directly related to the film. You will search for pieces of Legacy Code, which in turn will help you find the secret location of the villain, rogue AI called AI G. Rhythm.

In the trailer, Bugs explains to us that the game was created as part of a contest where people submitted their ideas for an original Space Jam game. The retro game specialists at developers Digital Eclipse mashed together one person’s idea for a beat ’em up style game with the mechanics suggested by this fan.

The game will arrive just before the animated/live-action movie hits theatres and HBO Max on July 16th.

Alongside this, Xbox and Warner Bros. have announced a collaboration to release three new Space Jam-themed controllers in anticipation of the movie. The design of these controllers can be seen in the below video. Each controller is retailing at $70 and will go on sale on July 8th.

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Tekken x Street Fighter is no longer in development, Tekken’s Katsuhito Harada reports.

Tekken X Street Fighter was announced by Bandai Namco at the 2010 San Diego Comic-con, alongside Capcom’s Street Fighter X Tekken. Street Fighter X Tekken was released 2 years later, in 2012. However, 11 years later, we still haven’t received Tekken X Street Fighter.

Street Fighter X Tekken was made by Capcom (as opposed to Bandai Namco). The core game mechanics were based on the 2D gameplay of Street Fighter, with the game including projectile-based moves such as the iconic Hadouken, dissimilar to that of the Tekken series.

Namco was set to release their own version of the series, which would follow their 3D gameplay style. Tekken X Street Fighter, however, had its development paused in 2016. As a result, we had heard little regarding any new developments on the game until recently, when Harada confirmed that development had been completely abandoned.

Bandai Namco consistently assured us that the game was still coming over the years. Unfortunately, however, that day will not come any time soon.

This is tough news to take for any hardcore fighting game fans who had waited these long 11 years to see some of your favourite franchise characters clash in a Tekken format.

Harada had previously said that they had developed about 30 percent of the game. He pointed out that from a motion standpoint, much of what they worked on was on display with the iconic Street Fighter character Akuma’s introduction into Tekken 7’s Roster.

Separate to character motions, Harada explained that they had a desire to show the character models they developed to all of us, but they would need co-operation by Capcom to do so.

In a VGC interview in 2019, Harada noted that with the continual success of Tekken 7 and its DLC, Tekken X Street Fighter was becoming harder and harder to justify. He notes that typically a fighting game has a 1-2-year lifespan, but the perpetual success of Tekken 7 (due to the DLC content) made investing in another fighting game irrational. Tekken 7, the most recent instalment in the Tekken series has accumulated over seven million players. Therefore, Tekken X Street Fighter has simply fizzled out.

Maybe one-day development will continue. Until then, we will simply have to remain patient and hopeful.

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Space Invaders was released in Japan in 1978 and was one of the first shooter games, very different to shooters as we know them today. When it was first released, Space Invaders was a hugely successful arcade game and is still very well-known to this day.

Space Invaders is a very basic game but at the time it was released it was phenomenal. The player controlled a laser cannon that moves horizontally across the screen and fires at the aliens above. The aliens also move back and forth horizontally but slowly advance to you down at the bottom of the screen whilst shooting at you. You had to destroy the aliens as quickly as possible and try not to get hit by any bullets.

The original look of Space Invaders

If you have never played Space Invaders I suggest that you try it at some point, it is a great indication at what video games were like almost 40 years ago now. A true classic.

Tomohiro Nishkado was the creator of Space Invaders. Some of the original enemy designs for the game that Nishkado wanted to create were tanks, combat planes and battleships but he opted against all of these options when he took inspiration for a space theme after he saw Star Wars.

Space Invaders on an arcade machine

By 1982, 400,000 arcade cabinets had been sold worldwide and made around $3.8 billion in revenue, that was is equivalent to over $13 billion today. The total revenue of Space Invaders makes it the highest-grossing video game of all time. Space Invaders even caused a coin shortage in Japan when it was first launched due to an unbelievable popularity. The little alien image remains one of the most well-known pop culture icons almost 40 years after it first appeared.

There wasn’t just the original arcade game for Space Invaders, there were several sequels to the original phenomenon.

1978 – Space Invaders

1979 – Space Invaders Part II

1980 – Space Invaders II

1985 – Return of the Invaders

1990 – Mininvader

1991 – Super Space Invaders ‘91

1994 – Space Invaders DX

1995 – Space Invaders ‘95

2008 – Space Invaders the Beat Attacker

In 38 years, no other game has managed to kick Space Invaders from being the highest-grossing game ever. Space Invaders, the arcade game so successful that it caused coin shortages.

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80’s gaming – Pac-Man

Gaming in the 1980’s brought us some iconic games in the form of Donkey Kong, Tetris and, of course, the Super Mario Bros! To kick start this awesome decade of gaming was the ghost-munching Pac-Man. Released in 1980 by game develop Namco, the idea of the game was to control Pac-Man through a maze, eating Pac-docs whilst also, when giving the chance, eat the enemies. Due to its popularity, game developers Namco decided to release a Mrs. Pac-Man version only two years later.

Being among the most famous arcade games of all time, Pac-Man is surely one of the most recognized gaming figures in history.

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